The U.S. Department of Justice cannot indiscriminately keep secret the names of immigration judges who are the subject of misconduct complaints, a federal appeals court in Washington ruled on Friday.
The Justice Department redacted the names of immigration judges in 16,000 pages of documents produced in response to a public records request. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit said DOJ must go back and weigh judges’ privacy interests against the public’s right to the information.
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